The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-11-10
DECLARATION FEED
N TIE LinEL AND 81 ISLANDER sun

tGrlj7T sSASa'4
IN TIE LIBEL AND ISLANDER SUIT
OfDr.J. II Pipes against the IuteliiEsnoer
and against Dr., j. II. aIccoy, Respect.
iveiy-Compiaint OF tho Petitioner,
on which no iiassa III, Prayer.
Mr.. Ii. NJ. Russell, Of counsel for DR.. J,
Fl. Pipes In his libol suit againas the Tx.
rELLIoRacEn and Ills alandcr mutt asalnst
Dr.. J. &. Mccoy, Of tho Eighth ward,
yeu!orday 6lod in tho olllco Of Clerk John
W. Mitchell, Of tho Circuit Court, tho
declarations in thous two casos. Tho ps.
pcrH arc long, bu! their aubatancs Is given
below: yl7i yTGg157g1' a
THE LipsL SUIT. ~. III
j. Il. Pipes complains OF John Frew,
A. w. Csmnhsll and O. Is. Hart, partners
doing huainess as Frew, Campbell ( Hart,
Of a plea Of treEpass on the case, and that
wheress the plaintiff Ia a good, honest,
upright md worthy citizen oil Ohio county,
Weet Virginia, and as such has always
behaved and conducted himself and until
the committing Of tho grievances hereln-
after mentioned, haa always been so 70.
puted among hinncighbore, acqusiutancss
and oshOr citlzanu OF the paid county 10
whom he was In any wlas known. And
whereas tho maid plaintiff has not ever
been guilty, or unit! tho timo OF the com.
milling Of the grievances by ths ssid de-.
iendanle, been sucpoctedS to have been
lgui!ty Of the olehsea and misconduct
hereinafter mentioned to hnvs been
charged upon him by tho ssid defendants.
And whereas bsto,e and at the tims OF
tho committing Of the gtovarcss tho
plaintiff WAS aud has been a Commissioner
OF Public scaools from Ri.chio district, in
ono Of the schools In which district one
Jane A. Grseuleo had heretofore been q
teacher. And whereas alco before the com.
hitting Of the grievances and before the
nesting Of the Board OF Education next
hereafter referred to, thoro had been made
in the Eight ward certain falac, scandal.
GUS aud malicious statemsnts Of and con-
cerning the plaintiff, to tbs chec. that the
said plaintiff had anqtsined immoral rele-
tione with said Jane A. Grson.oe while
she had been teacher In aaid uahool and
he ono OF the commissioners, and whereas
also on the 10Th Of September, 1857, thsrs
had been meeting OF the Board OF Edu.
cation, at which time the disappointment
OF the se!d Jano A. Gresnlee 10 q poeitiou
as teacher had been discussed, yet the do
fendants well knowing the premiseu, but
contriving aud intending to injure the
plaintiff in hia good name, iame end
credit aud to bring him into public scan
dial, iufsmy and disgrace with all hta
neighbora, acquaintance and Citlzsns end
TO cause 1t to DO beloved that the said
plaintiff had bsen guilty OF immoral
relationg With said Jane A. Greenlee
heretofore, to.wit: on the 10Th day oil
September, 1887, at tho eaid county, false.
ly, wlosodly and maliciously did com.
pose sna publish and cause 10
be publlahed in the Wheeling Daily IN
rELMGENcER, newspaper OF general cir.
cnlation IN the county Of Ohio, then snd
there owned by tho said dsleudants, o
false, seSnaaloaa, untlGious aud deisns.
tory libel concerning the plnin.iG and
conserving the ia!se, Scandalous, malicious
and dsiamatory statements heretofore
made end OF ard concerning tha aforesaid
meeting OF the Board, which libel COZ.
tanned in one point thereof The iGlse, ecau.
delous, malicious ard detamstory matter
folloTing:
Then follow quotations from the &C.
count in the 1ErsLL,aRNCEs Of September
| 10 Of the meeting Of the Board of Educa.
ton the night before, tho following para.
graph being especially dwelt upon:
"The question which has proven aach
sn ugly one 10 the ra.sppointmen. OF Niles
Jams a. Gseenlee to the position Of q
teGchesin the hitehie Eighth ward acbool,
and IL this connection tho relations 81.
LEGGED 20 exis. bosToan her ard Dr.. ]. II.
Pipes, a Commissioner fsom that diatric!
end President OF the Board. The cues.
ton not only developed into c scandal in
| the Board but il has been tho rcandal Of
| all Ecaudsis in the loHsr part. Of the city,
Especially in .he Eighth Tsrd, whers the
people and their children are directly IL
terested." N.
The complaint as 10 the injurious eIec.
OF SAID publication ia repeated In srbs.an-
sislly the BANJO form, with reis.sncs TO the
cntire article pnbliahed in tho IETELL1
dEScER of September II, and headed
"rhe School Scandal" and the com.
plant continues that tho wo-as therein
lluoted were auch as Ircm their usual con.
struction and common accap!atioa arc
construed 90 insults and tend to violence
and breach OF the peace, and thst they re-.
suited TO tbs injury Of said plaintiff to the
amount OF $40. 900, which he sues to 10.
cover.
~, TUE McoY CASE. u,
The declaration In tho suit against DR..
Mccoy differs materially, that being suit
Tor slandsr and tho other for libel. This
declaration rec!tes, as the other does, that
DR.. Pipes was citizen of good character,
standing and repute, and continues cub.
atantially 80 follows: F "A
Yet the plaintiff Gays that the defendant
well knowing the premisee, but malicious.
~ and wickedly cont.iving aud intending
to ipjure the plaintiff in hia sloresaid good
name, and to yoE, harraas, oppreEs, i'm.
poveriah and ruin eaid plaintiff, and to
subject him to the psHa.ty provided by
Law, did on the fret Of August say that
DR.. Pipes was guilty OF certain conduct
which loads 10 tho Inference that be was
an immoral man and fsequented immoral
re5orta, and that owing to. this, perHous
who bsiore tha! time employed the plain.
tit aa tLoir physician have since faied
and refused to do 60, and the plaintiff hiss
thus and otherwise BEEN greatly irjured
and damniied. Isla.a.'l,s '5-.5
This allegation OF tho petition is. re-.
peated in substantially, If not iden!ically,
the came words, the declaration recting
that on said August l this and other DAM
aging Statements were repeatedly made by
the eaid defendant concerning the plaintiff
to different parties, wherefore the plaintiff
prays to be awarded damages in the sum
Of $4,000. :, ss,llssjl'
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